My name is David Tod Sigafoos (dsig is pen name). Been working in electronics since a very young age (almost with Edison himself :) and computers since 1974 blah blah blah <G>
I went to a company, last November that had no way of sharing information between their divergent developers (web, pc, mini etc) and so tasked myself with finding a technology which was easy enough for all users to access. Wiki was the preferred method and MW is 'state of the art' for wiki and so here we are.
I have been trying to wrestle MW into something that can retain its ease of use but more aimed at business environments by serve up documents (office etc) as well as some added security.
I have put out an extension BoilerplateSelection (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BoilerplateSelection) which allows creation of articles with predefined 'boiler plate' text determined by the title.
We also have a need in the technical side to display source code. As we have a 4 tier environment (development, test, staging and production) we need to be able to display source from any of these areas AND/OR a DIFF of the codes from selected areas. I am working on specing this out now.
Having been involved with open source before I find the people involved with MW a mixed bag. For the majority there is a lot of help to be had on the 2 primary lists. But at times there appears to be a complete cutoff on any thought of what MW could do outside of WP. But maybe that is why we are here.
Having been in computers for some 30 years (having owned my own consulting business for 25 years) I find this all very fun. Poking around and learning different technologies.
DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos@sanmar.com